All browsers on OS X suck?

Can you post some example links?

 

Have been using chrome anad safari since 1 year and did never have these problems.

 

Which version of OSX are you running?

Have you tried emptying the browser cache?

Have you tried repairing the permissions as flash player causes some unwanted problems.

Any other info on any thing else that is happening eg: non loading pages

Also which extensions if any are you using with safari and firefox?

 

Can't say I have any of your problems – not with Chrome, Safari or Firefox.

Flash itself is poorly written for OS X, unfortunately. It would be nice if Adobe would fix that, n'est-ce pas?

 

Agreeing with everyone else. You clearly have another issue that's causing this to happen.

I have an original Mac Pro (The first version after they killed the Power Mac) which at this point is about 4 years old. It runs Basically every web browser just fine on Snow Leopard. I rarely ever have issues with any of them. I use Safari just out of preference but I could use any of them.

Do as others have suggested, maybe even do a clean install of OS X, you may have gunked something up and it's causing problems. It's always nice to reinstall and start from a clean slate once in awhile too.

 

Don't have any of your problems either. Except that youtube has some glitches in my safari. Opening with Firefox resolves the issue.

There is something else wrong with your hard-/software.

 

It's not the browsers OP it's a known YouTube/Flash issue. Just go to the channels site to watch videos until it's rectified. I think Flash 10.2 screwed something up.

 

Flash screwed something up? No way... But, everyone wants Flash on their iPhone.... I wonder why Apple won't put it on the iPhone then... hrm...

 

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8F190 Safari/6533.18.5)

The same here. Safari, Chrome and Firefox work without any issues. Battery life on my MBA is great.

 

Chrome is beautifully crafted, you should use that. Some immensely good add-ons also.

 

The Chrome-Adblock thing is universal

 

Except that it has a nasty habit of MR's ForumSpy crashing which takes the whole browser down. And their plug-ins system is crap compared to FF and Safari's even. It's just plain buggy.

 

This is pretty much sums up my experience of ALL browsers on OS X:

Safari: The only 64-bit browser and resource-intensive, but definitely feels the fastest. However, Safari has major compatibility issues with embedded wmv and mkv videos. Multiple tabs slow the browser to a crawl (with 8GB, it's unlikely the lack of RAM)

Chrome: VERY fast browsing, and it's a dream if you're an addict to all Google web apps (gmail, picasa etc). However, it also has major compatibility issues, especially with many Asian language websites.

Firefox: By FAR the most compatible browser, with a myriad of add-ons to choose from. However, it is also SLOW and resource-intensive. The interface also seems very last-century (i.e. no integrated URL and search bar, no favorite/popular sites at launch etc.)

I find myself switching between browsers for different uses.

 

I hear you on Opera. For some reason, I can seldom click on vids and links on the Youtube page in Opera.

 

Solution.

 

I use a Dell XP machine at work that has recently been crippled by graphics card issues, and it was recently replaced. I decided to give Chrome a spin on the PC side, as IE9 was only available for Vista and above and FF4 was not yet available. I've preferred the experience so far that I've made Chrome default on my home MB as well. Very clean, very fast.

 

Install Perian and Flip4Mac, problem solved.

As for the sucky MacOS X browsers, I have more than a dozen on my PM G5 running fully-updated MacOS X 10.4. The only one that sucks of Internet Explorer 5.2.3 for obvious reasons. I use Safari for just about all of my needs. It scores a perfect 100 on the Acid3 Test. It works great on all tasks including Flash-based content.

P.S. I have YouTube setup for HTML5. However, the videos work fine using Flash.

 

I think you'r trolling. If not the try to update safari.

 

The only times I had ever needed other web browser is when trying to access or do something in old websites created for the windows explorer only type of thing.
Reset Safari and many things will improve. Have all the latest updates.

About flash in the iPhone there is Skyfire web browser as a paid solution.

And if you want to have your Windows experience back it is up to you, there are plenty of choices:
- Boot Camp
- Virtual Box
- VM ware fusion
- Parallels
Stop whining and start acting.

 

Yet another person who thinks because they have a problem that means the entire world has a problem

 

Maybe check out a browser called Camino? It uses the Firefox rendering engine, but strips out all the junk which keeps Firefox in 2003.

 

The only thing I agree with you listing is that Firefox is clunky. Never had any of the problems with Chrome or Safari that you listed either. Super weird.